Hoplite (2nd Printing)

Edición en inglés.

Note on 2nd Printing: This will be identical to the 1st printing, except that any known errata will be corrected.

Hoplite, the 15th volume in the Great Battles of History series of games, allows players to recreate classic battles from the pre-Alexandrian Persian-Hellenistic Age, the heyday of the Hoplite (heavy infantry fighting in packed formation). This period is often considered to feature the birth of Western Warfare, as opposed to the Persian/Eastern style, which relied on archery , light cavalry, and mobility.

Exactly how hoplite warfare was fought – what really happened when “the bell rang” – is highly disputed by ancient military historians, even today. Hoplite allows you to test out your theories (well, our theories, using your dice) with eleven of the great battles of this era, from the Battle of Leuctra, featuring the huge 60-man deep phalanx of Beotarch Epaminondas to the classic confrontations with the Persian missile-armed troops against the classic Greek hoplite phalanxes.

Hoplite uses detailed mechanics meant to convey all the possibilities of this style of warfare, from The Hellenic Law of Inertia, to Drift to the Right, to the special capabilities of the Persian Light Cavalry (Harassment and Dispersal) to three different levels of Hoplite advance to Combat (the Run Don’t Walk rules) and a whole lot more. We even still have some good old chariots!

And you get to fight what was the biggest land battle in European history up until Napoleonic times, the immense Battle of Plataea (truly the deciding engagement of the Greco-Persian Wars): two maps and about 250 combat counters covering The Greek Contingents from 26 City-States under Pausanias, Spartan Regent and General, vs. The Persians, Medes, Asians (Bactrians, Scythians, Indians and a whole lot of others) and seven Medized Greek city-states, under Mardonius, Persian Commander and son-in-law of The Great King, Darius I.

The package includes Simple GBoH versions for each of the battles along with special rules that highlight the hoplite style of warfare.

Battles:
    Cunaxa - Persians vs. Rebels, 401 BCE
    Delium - Athenians vs. Boeotians, 424 BCE
    Ephesus - Ionians and Allies vs Persians, 498 BCE
    Leuctra - Boeotian League vs Sparta and Allies, 371 BCE
    Mantinea - Arcadian and Boeotian Leagues vs Sparta and Lacedaemonian Allies, 362 BCE
    Marathon - Persia vs. Athens and Plataea, 490 BCE
    Mycale - Greeks vs Persians, 479 BCE
    Plataea - Greeks vs Persians, 479 BCE
    Nemea - Spartans and Allies vs Thebans and Allies, 394 BCE
    Coronea - Spartans and Allies vs Thebans and Allies, 394 BCE
    Tanagra- Athenians vs Spartans, 457 BCE

COMPONENTS:
    4 full-color countersheets
    3 backprinted 22"x34" mapsheets
    2 Player Aid Cards
    Rules booklet
    Scenario booklet
    Simple GBoH Player Aid
    Rout Point Tracking Aid
    One 10-sided die